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95 And then was seen a dreadful sight, when god and demon met in fight. His sharpened missiles Vritra shot, his thunderbolts and lightnings hot . . . The lightnings then began to flash, the direful thunderbolts to crash, by Indra proudly hurled. . . And soon the knell of Vritra's doom was sounded by the clang and boom of Indra's iron shower. Pierced, cloven, crushed, with horrid yell the dying demon headlong fell... And Indra smote him with a bolt between the shoulders. These, we believe, were the battles of the "gods" and the Titans of the Greek tales. No one has yet found the meaning of "Titans": but if the tales had a Sumerian origin, and if so did these gods' names, then TI.TA.AN in Sumerian would have literally meant "Those Who in Heaven Live"—precisely the designation of the Igigi led by Kumarbi; and their adversaries were the Anunnaki "Who are on Earth." tween a grandson of Anu and a "demon" of a different clan; the tale is known as The Myth of Zu. Its hero is Ninurta, Enlil's son by his half-sister Sud; it could well have been the original tale from which the Hindu and Hittite tales were borrowed. The setting for the events described in the Sumerian text is the time that had followed Anu's visit to Earth. Under the overall command of Enlil, the Anunnaki have settled to their tasks in the Abzu and in Mes- opotamia: The ores arc mined and transported, then smelted and re- fined. From a busy spaceport in Sippar, shuttlecraft take the precious metals aloft to the orbiting stations operated by the Igigi, thence on to the Home Planet by periodically visiting spaceships. The complex system of space operations—the comings and goings by the space vehicles and communications between Earth and Nibiru, while both planets pursue their own destined orbits—is coordinated from Enlil's Mission Control Center in Nippur. There, atop a raised platform, was the DIR.GA room, the most restricted "holy of holies" where the vital celestial charts and orbital data panels—the "Tablets of Destinies"—were installed. The Wars of the Olden Gods Sumerian texts indeed record an olden life-and-death battle be-